Food for a Healthy Body? What About a Healthy Mind?

Kale salad? No thanks. Concerts, plays, books and paintings are every bit as nutritious

By

Joe Queenan

Nov. 29, 2013 7:18 p.m. ET

The other day, I went to see Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Harold Pinter's brilliant play "No Man's Land." The same week I heard András Schiff play the complete "Goldberg Variations" at Carnegie Hall. I also saw an exhibit of Leonardo da Vinci drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum. So culturally speaking, I was taking care of business.

On other fronts, I was not doing so well. Before entering the theater that night, my wife strong-armed me into dining at a local health-food emporium. I had...